14 Va. App. 118 - Evans v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 12 Va. App. 1003 - Lavinder v. Commonwealth · Clinebell v. Commonwealth · 6 Va. App. 178 - Wise v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 506 - Cash v. Commonwealth · 9 Va. App. 199 - League v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here relevant evidence of the complaining witness's prior sexual conduct does not fit within the specific exceptions set forth in the statute, it is not admissible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Prior sexual conduct' is defined as `any sexual conduct on the part of the complaining witness which took place before the conclusion of the trial, excluding the conduct involved in the offense alleged under this article.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“permit[s] the introduction of evidence of specific acts of sexual conduct between the complaining witness and third persons in carefully limited circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.